Cyber Defense Assessment Tool Visualizing Network Vulnerabilities
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cyber defense systems are complex and lack effective methods for visualizing, measuring the effectiveness of, and pinpointing vulnerabilities, making it difficult for security professionals to assess the strength and applicability of defense mechanisms against adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) or particular cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
Innovation Solution
A cyber defense capability assessment tool that compiles resource and defense mechanism lists within a computer network, evaluates them against identified threats and vulnerabilities using AI/ML, and generates visual indications of threats and vulnerabilities, recommending configuration changes and continuously monitoring their impact.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional network cyber defense systems are deployed to protect against multiple cyber threats, then the security coverage is improved, but the system complexity increases making it difficult to understand and assess defense capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary assessment system that mediates between the complex cyber defense infrastructure and security professionals. This intermediary translates complex defense mechanisms into understandable visual representations, allowing users to assess security capabilities without needing to understand the underlying complexity of hundreds of defense components operating at high speed
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates simplified copies or representations of the complex cyber defense system through visual models and assessments. Instead of requiring users to directly interact with or understand the actual complex defense infrastructure, the system generates simplified visual copies that represent defense effectiveness, coverage, and potential improvements
2Productivity
If multiple cyber defense mechanisms are deployed to inspect hundreds of queries per second, then the defense effectiveness is improved, but the difficulty in understanding and assessing the underlying framework increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms that automatically assess and report on defense effectiveness. The system continuously monitors the performance of multiple cyber defense mechanisms operating at high speed and provides feedback in the form of visual assessments, making it easy for security professionals to understand and measure defense capabilities without being overwhelmed by the complexity of analyzing hundreds of high-speed queries
3Reliability
If comprehensive cyber defense mechanisms are implemented to address various threats and vulnerabilities, then the defense coverage is improved, but the ease of determining defense strength and applicability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the comprehensive cyber defense system into assessable components through visual representations. Instead of presenting a monolithic complex system, the assessment tool breaks down defense coverage into manageable segments that can be individually evaluated and understood, making it easier for security professionals to assess defense strength and applicability across different threat scenarios
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AI summary
A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for implementing a service that simplifies network cyber defense capabilities. The method includes: compiling a resource list of resources that exist within a computer network; compiling a cyber defense list of cyber defense mechanisms that exist within the computer network; evaluating the resources and the cyber defense mechanisms, against any applicable threats or vulnerabilities, to determine whether there are any threats to the computer network or any vulnerabilities to that network; and generating a visual indication of any of the computer network's threats or vulnerabilities. The resource list may include a resource configuration of the resources, and the cyber defense list may include a cyber defense configuration of the cyber defense mechanisms.